Vienna has long been an important center of classical music, with composers like Mozart, Beethoven, and Johann Strauss Jr. being associated with the city. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Vienna was the European capital of classical music under the patronage of the Habsburgs. The Vienna Secession art movement emerged in the late 19th century, led by artists including Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Austrian architecture is renowned for its castles and palaces built during the Habsburg reign. Folk music traditions like Schrammelmusic and the Blue Danube waltz also originated in Vienna and Austria.

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interkulturellen Kompetenzen und Gleichbehandlung
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2. Music of Austria
Vienna, the capital city of Austria has long been an important
center of musical innovation. Composers of the 18th and 19th
centuries were drawn to the city by the patronage of the
Habsburgs, and made Vienna the European capital of classicalHabsburgs, and made Vienna the European capital of classical
music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven,
and Johann Strauss, Jr.,among others, were associated with the
city. During the Baroque period, Slavic and Hungarian folk
forms influenced Austrian music. Vienna's status began its rise
as a cultural center in the early 16th century, and was focused
around instruments including the lute.

3. Classical music
During the 18th century, the
classical-music era dominated
European classical music, and the
city of Vienna was an especially
important place for musicalimportant place for musical
innovation. Three composers
arose, making lasting innovations:
Ludwig van Beethoven's
symphonic patterns, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart's balance
between melody and form, and
Joseph Haydn`s development of
the string quartet and sonata.
Joseph Haydn, Portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1791

4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart showed prodigious ability
from his earliest childhood in
Salzburg. Already competent on
keyboard and violin, he composed
from the age of five and performed
before European royalty.
During his final years in Vienna, he
composed many of his best-known
symphonies, concertos, and operas,
and portions of the Requiem,which
was largely unfinished at the time of
Mozart's death.
Mozart drawing by Doris Stock 1789

5. Ludwig van Beethoven
Born in Bonn, then the capital of the
Electorate of Cologne and part of the
Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven
moved to Vienna in his early 20s,
studying with Joseph Haydn and
quickly gaining a reputation as aquickly gaining a reputation as a
virtuoso pianist. His hearing began to
deteriorate in his late twenties, yet he
continued to compose, conduct, and
perform, even after becoming
completly deaf. The rythm of EU one
of the famous melody by Beethoven.
Painting of Beethoven by Joseph
Karl Stieler (1820)

6. Johann Strauss, Jr,
An Austian composer of light music,
particularly dance music and operettas.
He composed over 500 waltzes,
polkas, quadrilles and other types of
dance music, as well as several
operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime,operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime,
he was known as "The Waltz King",
and was largely then responsible for
the popularity of the waltz in Vienna
during the 19th century.
Johann Strauss, Jr, Lithography by Josef Kriehuber

7. Folk Music and Dancing
Schrammelmusic:
is a style of Viennese folk music
originating in the late nineteenth
century and still performed in
present-day Austria. The style is
named for the prolific folk
composers Johann and Josefcomposers Johann and Josef
Schrammel.
The Schrammel quartet in 1890

8. The Blue Danube…
Waltz: is a ballroom and folk
dance of Austrian origin in 3/4
time , performed primarily in
closed position.
A statue of the Waltz King in Stadtpark, Vienna

10. Visual arts

11. Vienna Secession
The Vienna Secession (also known as
the Union of Austrian Artists, or
Vereinigung Bildender Künstler
Österreichs) was formed in 1897 by a
group of Austrian artists who had
resigned from the Association ofresigned from the Association of
Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna
Künstlerhause. This movement
included painters, sculptors, and
architects. The first president of the
Secession was Gustav Klimt, and
Rudolf von Alf was made honorary
president. Its official magazine was
called „Ver Sacrum".

12. Art Nouveau
The Vienna Secession
was part of a varied
movement around 1900
that is now covered by
the general term Artthe general term Art
Nouveau.
Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station, Vienna (1894-1902)

13. Gustav Klimt
Austrian Symbolist painter and
one of the most prominent
members of the Vienna Secession
movement. His major works
include paintings, murals,include paintings, murals,
sketches, and other art objects.

14. Egon Schiele
An Austrian painter. A protégé
of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a
major figurative painter of the
early 20th century. His work is
noted for its intensity, and the
many self-portraits the artistmany self-portraits the artist
produced. The twisted body
shapes and the expressive line
that characterize Schiele's
paintings and drawings mark
the artist as an early exponent
of Expressionism.
Zwei Kleine Mädchen, 1911

15. Architecture
Austria is famous for its
castles, palaces, and
cemeteries, among other
architectural works. Some ofarchitectural works. Some of
Austria's most famous castles
include Festung
Hohensaltzburg, Burg
Hohenwerfen, Castle
Liechtenstein, and the
Schloß Artstetten. Many of
Austria's castles were created
during the Habsburg reign.

16. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
An Austrian artist. Born
Friedrich Stowasser in
Vienna, he became one of
the best-knownthe best-known
contemporary Austrian
artists, although
controversial, by the end
of the 20th century.
A typical Hundertwasser facade: the
Hundertwasserhaus in Plochingen

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19. Short course of Viennese waltz
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